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Thomas Reardon

Historical cofounder / CEO (pre-2019 acquisition) at CTRL-labs

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CEO and co-founder of Flourish, developing energy-efficient AI, and a venture partner at Lux Capital. A computational neuroscientist with a Columbia PhD, he co-founded CTRL-labs, acquired by Meta in 2019, and led research on non-invasive neuromotor interfaces using surface EMG. Earlier initiated Microsoft's Internet Explorer project and served as Openwave CTO. Co-author of the 2025 Nature paper on generic neuromotor interfaces for human-computer interaction; joined Columbia's board of trustees in September 2026.

Current affiliation

CTRL-labs · Historical cofounder / CEO (pre-2019 acquisition)

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Investments on record

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Investments

$40M2021-06-03

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Khosla Ventures, Forepont Capital Partners, ID8 Investments, Shanda Group, General Advance, Subversive Capital, re.Mind Capital, Arani Bose, Thomas Reardon, Neuro Technology Investors, METIS, University of Melbourne

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